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Mozilla 1.8 Alpha Released
AllMightyPaul writes "Last Friday, the Mozilla Organization announced Mozilla 1.8a. You can download Mozilla 1.8 alpha (with torrents available) from the Mozilla public FTP server. Features include a basic upload FTP UI, improved junk mail filtering, and the number of cookies that Mozilla can hold has also increased 'dramatically.' What's amazing is that they haven't even released Mozilla 1.7 yet. Here I thought that Mozilla was going to standardize on 1.7."
Insightful? Come on now mindless drones...you KNOW better than that, this post is just WRONG.
Anyone who's used Firefox knows it's THE browser for developers...Small, fast, stable, compliant, and HUGELY extendable.
Compared to Firefox, Mozilla has NO developer tools.
Mozilla is for the masses who either a) don't understand that email and web browsing are 2 different things (never-mind ftp etc etc). These are the people who think that a browser IS the internet. Or b) People who are irked by the fact that they have to run IE _and_ Outlook Express.
It's a convenience thing.
No Comment.
"but having a single app (single download, single install, single version tracking) that does web + mail + calendar + html editor + irc on every existing platform is required."
... well to egotistical teenagers and 20somethings who kid themselves that they're miserable lives or ideas are of the slightest interest to anyone. But hey , yeah a blogger why not. And why not a word pro to compose all those blogs and hey , maybe a spreadsheet and a presentation manager?
Drivel. Its only required if you're some sheep who thinks the monolithic way a-la MS Office is the only way to go.
"That is far most important than all your little my-browser-is-smaller-than-yours pissing contest"
NO it isn't. Its a damn site more relevant than a mine-can-do-more-than-yours chest beating contest.
"mozilla suite extended to include a blogger, an im client, a pim synchronisation tool or a p2p client"
Oh yes , and bloggers are so useful
"the mozilla.org resources into fullfilling your personal needs"
Oh dear, you called people "resources". You're a just another standard issue manager-in-waiting cog in the machine spouting supposedly trendy buzzwords arn't you.
"Mozilla is the single most important application in that field."
Yeah whatever , keep kidding yourself, maybe someone will believe you one day.